1880
Reading the 1880 result in Virginia
Virginia backed Hancock (Democratic) in the 1880 presidential election, casting 11 electoral votes for the ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — James A. Garfield (Republican) won the presidency, leaving Virginia among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Virginia backed the Democratic party, a streak reaching back to 1872. Virginia did not move alone — neighboring North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Maryland broke the same way in 1880. Across the 58 presidential elections Virginia has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (33 times). The vote fell within the Gilded Age — Industrialization, narrow margins, and patronage politics.
In the national count, James A. Garfield took 214 of the 369 electoral votes, against Winfield Scott Hancock's 155. James A. Garfield led the national popular vote with 48.31% of the ballots cast.
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